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The company’s new electric delivery vans should hit city streets this fall.<p>While Tesla develops an electric semi-truck–which may be in production by 2019 or 2020–a startup has designed another type of electric delivery truck for city use, and it’s ready now. By this fall, you might see one of its …

The company is leaving most of its markets and retooling its service to serve small businesses rather than consumers—tough decisions that it hopes will lead to profitability.<p>“Magic” may be the tech industry’s most-abused term. But when I first used Shyp in 2015, the word felt just right. With a few …

<i>This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.</i><p>Self-driving car startup Oxbotica and British digital-only supermarket Ocado are working on an autonomous grocery delivery trial in the Greenwich neighborhood of London, according to …

Walmart today says it has begun testing using store employees to make last mile deliveries for online orders in select markets. The idea is an expansion on the retailer’s recently launched 2-day shipping program, which lets customers order from over 2 million online items for fast delivery without …

The makers of the August smart lock asked participants to overcome their concerns and see if they liked in-home deliveries. They really did.<p>Would you allow UPS to drop off a package inside your home when you’re not there?<p>That question is at the heart of a three-month pilot program that smart lock …

The robots have arrived, and they're here to work.<p>On March 23, bots from Starship Technologies started taking over some of the work done by human couriers at on-demand delivery startup DoorDash. The self-driving robots ferry goods from restaurants in Redwood City, California, to customers within a …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Dubai has announced yet another pioneering initiative, but this time it's not the world's first rotating skyscraper or 3D printed office. It's a fleet of flying taxis.<p>Small enough to fit into a car parking space when folded up, the one-seater passenger drones made by Chinese company Ehang …

Bringg, a startup taking advantage of the shift toward faster, more transparent on-demand delivery, has raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Aleph VC, and includes participation from Coca-Cola and prior investor Pereg …

AUSTIN, Texas — Amazon unveiled its highly anticipated delivery drones at this year's SXSW conference in Austin, Texas — but they're not yet dropping merchandise or breakfast burritos to the thousands of attendees at the tech, music and film festival.<p>For the first time ever, according to Amazon …

The robots are operated remotely, but human handlers accompany them on deliveries — for now. The ultimate goal is to have the robots guide themselves to the restaurant where an order is placed and then to the customer.<p>"We envision sort of a 99 percent autonomous model wherein we can retain a sense …

LONDON — You can't walk more than a few yards in Britain's capital without spotting a courier.<p>On bikes or mopeds, they zip around London, delivering everything from takeaway meals or high-end fashion. They're the most visible part of the "gig economy," a growing sector of the economy that focuses …

A night out with a delivery driver.<p>This story appears in the March 2017 issue of <i>Entrepreneur</i>. Subscribe »<p>Someone in Madison, Wisc., has conjured Greek food. They went to MrDelivery.com, picked their local Greek restaurant and made their order. That information then zipped off to a centralized data …

Ford, which jumpstarted the mass availability of gasoline-powered cars a century ago, is now envisioning a world without drivers.<p>The company this week unveiled a concept for electric, automated delivery vans, part of a new product it calls Autolivery. The vehicles are focused on package delivery in …

Drones are used for aerial photography, surveillance, news coverage, and rescue operations. Now a group of scientists and researchers are figuring out if drones can make it rain. The science is called cloud seeding, and it is being tested in Nevada at an FAA site, four hours north of Las …

The race to create the first fully autonomous car has a variety of competitors, from giant automotive firms like General Motors, software conglomerates like Alphabet, to newly minted startups like Chris Urmson’s secretive company.<p>All of them have the end goal of creating some type of self-driving …

Uber has confirmed that it will stop its self-driving pilot in San Francisco, following a meeting today with the California DMV and Attorney General’s office. The DMV revoked the registration on 16 self-driving test vehicles Uber was using in its pilot.<p>The DMV tells TechCrunch that it invited Uber …